At sunset, the crickets begin to chirp and the fireflies light up the night.
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Chirp
/t͡ʃɜːp/
Synonyms for "chirp" (217 found)
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Related words (108)
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6 entriesCollocations
9 entriesalarm chirpbird chirpchirp at dawnchirp loudlychirp ratechirp soundcricket chirpinsect chirpphone chirp
Inflections
4 entriesDerivations
6 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غَرَّدَ verb (birds)
Bulgarian
1 entries- чуруликам verb (birds)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 唧唧叫 verb (birds)
- 譟 /噪 verb (birds)
- 鳴 /鸣 verb (birds)
Czech
3 entries- cvrlikat verb (birds)
- štěbetat impf švitořit verb (birds)
- šveholit verb (birds)
Danish
2 entries- kvidre verb (birds)
- pippe verb (birds)
Dutch
2 entries- tjilpen verb (birds)
- tjirpen verb (birds)
Esperanto
1 entries- pepi verb (birds)
Finnish
2 entries- sirkuttaa verb (birds)
- visertää verb (birds)
French
3 entries- gazouiller verb (birds)
- piailler verb (birds)
- pépier verb (birds)
Georgian
1 entries- ჟღურტულებს verb (birds)
German
3 entries- tirilieren verb (birds)
- tschilpen verb (birds)
- zwitschern verb (birds)
Greek
2 entries- κελαηδώ verb (birds)
- τιτιβίζω verb (birds)
Hebrew
1 entries- צִפְצֵף verb (birds)
Hungarian
2 entries- csicsereg verb (birds)
- csiripel verb (birds)
Indonesian
1 entries- ciak verb (birds)
Irish
1 entries- gíog verb (birds)
Italian
1 entries- cinguettare verb (birds)
Japanese
2 entries- 囀る verb (birds)
- 鳴く verb (birds)
Latin
2 entries- pīpilō verb (birds)
- pīpiō verb (birds)
Middle English
1 entries- chirmen verb (birds)
Māori
4 entries- ketekete verb (birds)
- pekī verb (birds)
- pīpī verb (birds)
- waiari verb (birds)
Persian
1 entries- چاویدن verb (birds)
Polish
1 entries- świergotać verb (birds)
Portuguese
4 entries- chilrear verb (birds)
- gorjear verb (birds)
- piar verb (birds)
- trinar verb (birds)
Romanian
1 entries- ciripi verb (birds)
Russian
2 entries- чири́кать verb (birds)
- щебета́ть verb (birds)
Spanish
4 entries- chiar verb (birds)
- piar verb (birds)
- piolar verb (birds)
- pipiar verb (birds)
Swedish
1 entries- kvittra verb (birds)
Tagalog
1 entries- sumiyap verb (birds)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The birds chirp loudly while flying rapidly.
Source: tatoeba (1745521)
Are there birds with this kind of chirp in Australia too?
Source: tatoeba (3281091)
Listen to the birds chirp.
Source: tatoeba (6017265)
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